Kapil Dev scolded BCCI President Sourav Ganguly and Virat Kohli, said – keep the country ahead

All is not looking well in Team India for the last few months. Just ahead of the T20 World Cup 2021, Virat Kohli announced that this would be his last tournament as T20 captain and that he would continue to lead the ODI and Test teams after that. Everything was fine till here, but after this, everyone was stunned to see the way the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Virat Kohli were determined regarding the captaincy. Kapil Dev, who won India’s first World Cup under his captaincy, has asked BCCI President Sourav Ganguly and Virat to resolve the matter over a phone call and also said that both should put the country first.

According to The Week magazine, Kapil Dev said, ‘These two (Virat and BCCI) should have resolved this matter among themselves. Pick up the phone call and put the nation ahead of itself. I got what I wanted, but sometimes it doesn’t. It doesn’t mean that you will give up the captaincy. If he left the captaincy because India could not win any ICC tournament under his captaincy, then I don’t know what to say. I want to see him play more, score runs, especially in Test cricket.

In fact, Virat himself left the captaincy of the T20 team, after which Rohit Sharma was also handed over the command of the ODI team before the South Africa tour. Regarding which a statement came from the BCCI that Virat was forbidden to leave the captaincy of the T20 team, but he did not do so and the selectors were not in favor of two different captains in the limited overs format, so Rohit was given the command of the ODI team. Went. Apart from this, it was also said that Virat was informed about this. After this, the controversy started when Virat said before leaving for the South Africa tour that no one had told him not to give up the captaincy of the T20 team.

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Apart from this, he was informed about the ODI captaincy shortly before the announcement. From here, the picture of estrangement between BCCI and Virat started getting clear. After the announcement of the ODI squad for South Africa, the selectors again said the same things while nodding yes to the BCCI. At the end of the Test series, Virat also left the Test captaincy.